Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this film is that each of these creations had to actually exist to be filmed. By that, I mean they weren’t created by a few keystrokes on a computer and then added to a live-action sequence later on. These things – the denizens of this unique world – had to be designed and built. They had to be a real physical presence on the set. They had to be puppeteered, wrangled and managed for the camera. Really, when you pause to think about what that means, you can detect what a labor of love this film must have been.